Rupert Jones in today’s Guardian has a note about Music Magpie, a site where you can sell old CDs, games, and now DVDs. The site calls itself an “online CD recycling service.” I like CDs, so I took a look. The service is a commercial operation and as far as I can tell isn’t any [...]
One of my best musical memories is of John Martyn and Danny Thompson playing through Solid Air at the Cropredy festival – I forget the year, it was during the Eighties. A magical summer evening. News of Martyn’s death came today in a brief entry on his web site. What can I say? I love [...]
I’ve posted a pic of the Foo Fighters at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco last year. I enjoyed the concert. Incidentally, this is the first photo I have ever uploaded to Flickr. Technorati tags: foo fighters, flickr
I saw Richard Thompson, accompanied by Judith Owen (vocals, piano) and Debra Dobkin (percussion, vocals), perform his 1000 Years of Popular Music set at the Corn Exchange in Cambridge (Friday January 16th). This is a great atmospheric venue with good acoustics, but we arrived slightly after 7.30pm thanks to traffic and parking problems, to find [...]